Fwd: Indo-European origins, Celtic

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

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From: "John Day" <johnvday at hotmail.com>
To: ejp10 at psu.edu, diacritics-requests at listserv.heanet.ie
Subject: Indo-European origins, Celtic
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 17:20:03 +0000
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Dear List Server

I thought your list subscribers might be interested in a new book of
mine: “Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence”
(Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC, 2001; xxiv + 546
pages; ISBN 0-941694-75-5). One can order it for $68.00 from
http://www.jies.org/DOCS/mono14.html

Prof. Victor Mair, co-author of “The Tarim Mummies”, called it “a
truly remarkable and valuable piece of work”. And Prof. Friedrich
Rösing, of the Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie in Ulm,
said: “Für die älteren bevölkerungsgeschichtlichen Fragen in Europa
is dies eine Scharnierarbeit, sie teilt in davor und danach, denn sie
behandelt nicht nur jene einfache Grundfragestellung, sondern vieles
Weitere.”

Based on a doctoral thesis supervised by J. P. Mallory, the book uses
evidence from biological anthropology -- in modern genetic patterns,
ancient skeletal remains, ancient dermatoglyphics, and hints about
pigmentation recorded in ancient texts and artworks -- combined with
linguistics and archaeology to determine where Indo-European
originated and how it managed to spread over much of Eurasia.

As for Celtic in particular, the most useful sections will be
5.3.2.12 about Latin and Greek texts describing Celtic speakers in
Britain, Gaul and Iberia, and 5.4.2.10 about texts describing Celtic
speakers by ancient Celtic speakers themselves, principally in early
medieval Ireland.

With best wishes,

John V. Day


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